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Alex Esposito's sexy Mustafà at Rossini Festival
Alex Esposite as Mustafà One of our favorite Mozart singers just wrapped a stunningly sexy turn in an opera by another composer. Alex Esposito caused a lot of opera glasses to be raised with his...
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Barihunk Steven LaBrie chosen as M∙A∙C Cosmetics model
Steven Labrie in gold and black evening jacketBarihunk Steven LaBrie probably never guessed that he'd have something in common with drag icon RuPaul, but they are now both models for M∙A∙C Cosmetics....
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Barihunks on-the-air from LA Opera & Metropolitan Opera
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Italian barihunk Ildebrando D'Arcangelo will portray Escamillo in the Los Angeles Opera's season-opening production of Carmen on September 21st. The performance will be broadcast...
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Morgan Pearse discusses his career
Morgan Pearse in Owen WingraveAustralian barihunk Morgan Pearse has become a reader favorite since first appearing on this site in 2011. We've followed his young career, as he's won singing...
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Chris Herbert featured in webcast N.Y. Britten tributes
The free Trinity Wall Street concert series has announced their 2013-14, which will focus on the music of Benjamin Britten in honor of the centenary of the composer’s birth. The festival will explore...
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Andre' Courville's farewell featured on local TV
Andre' CourvilleBarihunk Andre' Courville was featured on his local TV station KATC in Lafayette, Louisiana. The segment bids him farewell as he leaves his role as music director and organist at Our...
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Brandon Cedel to appear in recital with Uncle Mark Cedel
Brandon CedelBrandon Cedel, one of the six winners of the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a recent finalist in the Queen Sonja Vocal Competition, will be a featured soloist with...
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Introducing James Newby via Twitter
We caught some Twitter messages going back and forth between friends a few weeks ago. One friend suggested that the other should be on Barihunks. The other replied that "this accolade could complete me...
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Two generations of young artists in premiere of Puerto Rican opera
Denis Sedov (Photo of left by Bogdan Tache)& studying the Verdi RequiemRussian barihunk Denis Sedov is creating the role of Ledo Jiménez in the world premiere of Carlos Vázquez’s La mina de oro in...
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Baritones dominate Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition
Johnny Herford (L) and Aarne Pelkonen (R)As we prepare to watch the finals of the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, we're amazed at the consistently great baritone voices on...
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Featured Barihunks dominate St. Gallen's Don Giovanni
Thomas OliemansA loyal reader who is catching some opera in Switzerland next week alerted us to the Don Giovanni in St. Gallen, which features four singers who have appeared on this site. Of course,...
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Barihunk-laden Don Giovanni in bucolic setting
Gregory Gerbrandt and Nora Graham-SmithDon Giovanni and his little black book are returning to Northern California, this time at the Hidden Valley Opera Ensemble. The burgeoning opera company is a...
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Morgan Smith's many upcoming debuts (mostly in Texas!)
Morgan SmithPerhaps one of the most anticipated American premieres this year is that of exiled Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Holocaust opera The Passenger. We covered the opera two years...
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L.A. Opera adds Streetcar with Ryan McKinny & Renée Fleming
Ryan McKinny in Der fliegende HolländerThe Los Angeles Opera has just announced that it is adding André Previn’s Streetcar Named Desire to its 2013-14 season. Taking on the role of Stanley Kowalski...
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Justin Hopkins part of "30 Days of Opera" at Opera Memphis
We have always maintained that some of the best opera happens away from the major houses at the second tier houses. One of the most innnovative opera companies is Opera Memphis, run by director Ned...
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Workshop of Borzoni's "Antinous and Hadrian" this weekend
Brian MextorfComposer Clint Borzoni and librettist Edward Ficklin have been workshopping their new opera Antinous and Hadrian at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea. You can attend the workshop...
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Celebrating the anniversary of La clemenza di Tito
Alex Esposito as PubliusToday is the anniversary of the premiere of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and we thought it deserved a mention, since we give a disproportionate amount of attention to the Big 3...
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Trio of barihunks in contemporary opera in Vienna
Tomasz PietakA regular reader of ours in Austria alerted us to a performance of Šimon Voseček's Biedermann und die Brandstifter at the Neue Oper Wienand its trio of barihunks. The opera opens on...
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Gabriel Preisser's new CD and upcoming performances
Gabriel PreisserWe first started following Gabriel Preisser three years ago when an opera insider wrote us and told us to keep an eye on the then 26-year-old singer. At the time, he was headed off to...
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Martin Achrainer (shirtless) in another Philip Glass premiere
Martin Achrainer in Spuren der VerirrtenTyrolian barihunk Martin Achrainer is making quite a name for himself as an exponent of new works by American minimalist composer Philip Glass. An alert reader...
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